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My recent work is comprised of concise, bold, graphic works on paper, Mylar or canvas that combine drawing and collage allowing negative space, limited elements and materials to take the lead - to say more with less. This work relies on restraint; compositions are edited, rigorously arranged and rearranged to forge a singular image that reads as a symbol or icon.

My explorations have centered onthe relationships betweenshape, scale, pattern, color, and repetition, and are informed by cartography, music, aerial landscapes and architectural fragments. I’m fascinated by shifts in perception - the momentary in-between space alternating between recognition and abstraction – of being someplace and nowhere at the same time.

Joe Camoosa was born in Asbury Park, New Jersey and lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia. He received an MFA in painting and drawing from the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia and graduated from Florida State University where he studied Mass Communication and Anthropology. Camoosa has exhibited in galleries in Atlanta, Nashville, Richmond and New York, and museums such as MOCA GA, Atlanta Contemporary, The Hudgens Center for the Arts, The Georgia Museum of Art, The Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences and his work is held in numerous corporate and private collections. He is currently a member of the Studio Artists Program at Atlanta Contemporary and a 2016-2017 Walthall Fellow.